Coolevin Road is a cul-de-sac. Quiet, with a peaceful air about it, it is hidden away between Camden Street and Clanbrassil Street and is a short trot from St Stephen’s Green. As locations go for those wanting a starter townhouse or family home it would be hard to beat.
The two-storey, pebble-dashed houses in Coolevin Road were built in the 1930s as homes for post-and-telegraph workers. That No 4 has weathered the storms of the intervening 80-odd years with aplomb is in part a tribute to the solidity and strength of the original structure but owes a lot too to the care and attention of its owner for the last 18 years.
Agent Quillsen is asking €460,000 for what will be a private treaty sale. Every inch of No 4’s reasonably-sized 65sq m (700sq ft) space has been put to comfortable living use in two bedrooms, living/dining room, kitchen, utility and family bathroom. The house originally had three bedrooms but the owner sacrificed one for an upstairs bathroom.
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The garden is unexpected. Immediately outside the kitchen door there is a decent-sized patio, paved, private and planted. This extends and then swings around to become a curved area of lawn by the side of the house, with a paved walk to a side entrance. Well planted, it has trees, including a bushy evergreen, leggy laurel and hydrangea.
Inside, the shape and some features of No 4’s 1930s beginnings are clear in original doors, timber floors and fireplaces. The kitchen is galley-style with a serving hatch to the living/dining room, which has an original, open fireplace with timber surround and maroon tile inset. The dining area is by the wide, front-facing window.
The main bedroom is to the front and has a similarly large window, as well as a built-in wardrobe and original cast-iron fireplace. The second bedroom is to the rear and it, too, has a cast-iron fireplace. A blue-toned family bathroom off this compact first floor landing has a wooden floor and a glazed window allowing in natural light.
There is off-street parking for two cars to the front.
